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Jan Plamper

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Center for the History of Emotions

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Short CV: 

Dilthey Fellow (Fritz Thyssen Foundation), 11/2008-8/2012
Ph.D., History, 2001, University of California, Berkeley
B.A., History, 1992, Brandeis University

Project participation: 
Fear: Soldiers and Emotion in Russia, 1800–2000

Research Interests: 
  • Modern European and Russian History
  • History of Emotions, including anthropological and life science approaches
  • Symbolic Politics and Visual History
  • History of Psychiatry
  • New Military History
  • History of Migration

Selected Literature: 
  • Plamper, J. (2012). The Stalin cult: A study in the alchemy of power. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Plamper, J. (2010). The History of Emotions: An Interview with William Reddy, Barbara Rosenwein, and Peter Stearns. In: History and Theory 49/2.
  • Plamper, J., Lazier, B. (Eds.) (2010). Fear Beyond the Disciplines. In: Representations 110.
  • Plamper, J., Schahadat, S., & Elie, M. (Eds.) (2010). Rossiiskaia imperiia chuvstv: Podkhody k kul'turnoi istorii emotsii [In the Realm of Russian Feelings: Approaches to the Cultural History of Emotions]. Moscow: NLO.
  • Plamper, J. (2010). Migration und Emotion. In: Belkin, D., & Gross, R. (Eds.). Ausgerechnet Deutschland! Jüdisch-russische Einwanderung in die Bundesrepublik. Berlin: Nicolai.
  • Michl, S., Plamper, J. (2009). Soldatische Angst im Ersten Weltkrieg. Die Karriere eines Gefühls in der Kriegspsychiatrie Deutschlands, Frankreichs und Russlands. In: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 35/2.
  • Plamper, J. (2009). Fear: Soldiers and Emotion in Early Twentieth-Century Russian Military Psychology. In: Slavic Review 68/2.
  • Plamper, J. (Ed.) (2009). Emotional Turn? Feelings in Russian History and Culture. In: Slavic Review 68/2.

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PERSONAL

Born 23 March 1970
 

HIGHER EDUCATION

Ph.D. in History, UC Berkeley (2001)
B.A. summa cum laude with High Honors in History, Brandeis U (1992)
 

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

  • Professor of History, Goldsmiths, U of London (9/2012-)
  • Dilthey Fellow (Fritz Thyssen Foundation), Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin (11/2008-8/2012)
  • Wissenschaftlicher Assistent, U Tübingen (11/2001-9/2007, 10/2008)

  • Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, SFB 434 “Erinnerungskulturen,” U Giessen (2000-01)
     

OTHER POSITIONs

  • Associate Editor, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History (1/2007-)
  • Projektleiter, SFB 437 “Kriegserfahrungen,” U Tübingen (1/2005-12/2008)

  

TEACHING  

  • Summer School Görlitz, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (9/2010)
  • Summer School at European U, St. Petersburg (8/2007) (in Russian)
  • Proseminare and Übungen at U Tübingen (2001-07)

  • Teaching Assistant at UC Berkeley for Prof. Peter Sahlins et al. (1996-99)
     

RECENT FELLOWSHIPS

  • Fellow, Historisches Kolleg, Munich (10/2007-9/2008)
  • Fellowship, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton U, Spring 2008 (declined)
  • Fellowship, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard U, Spring 2008 (declined)
  • Fellowship, Collegium Budapest, 2008-2009 (declined)

 

PEER REVIEW

Review of manuscripts for Kritika, Russian Review, Slavic Review, U Pittsburgh Press, Princeton UP, Yale UP
 

MEDIA EXPERIENCE

Radio interviews and features in Russian: Deutsche Welle, Ekho Moskvy, Svoboda, Voice of America; in German: Bayern2, Deutschlandfunk, DRadio Wissen, RBB
 

SELECT CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION, SERVICE, AND OTHER EXPERIENCE

  • Co-Organizer of Workshop “Fear: Multidisciplinary Perspectives,” Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton U (4/2008)
  • Co-Organizer of Conference “Emotions in Russian History and Culture,” Moscow (4/2008)
  • Peace Service (in lieu of Military Service) for MEMORIAL, St. Petersburg. Social Work with Victims of Stalinism and Nazism (1992-94)
  • Fundraising for NITs MEMORIAL, St. Petersburg (1998-)

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Monographs

 

  • The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power (New Haven: Yale UP, 2012)
    Russian, Alkhimiia vlasti: Kul’t Stalina v izobrazitel’nom iskusstve (Moscow: NLO, 2010)
  • Geschichte und Gefühl: Grundlagen der Emotionsgeschichte (Munich: Siedler, 2012)

 

Conference Volumes, Special Issues of Journals

  • Klaus Heller, Jan Plamper, eds., Personality Cults in Stalinism – Personenkulte im Stalinismus (Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2004)
  • Jan Plamper, ed., “Grenzgang in der Geschichte. Wissenschaftskulturen im Internationalen Vergleich,” Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 52, no. 10 (2004)
  • Jan Plamper, ed., special section, “Emotional Turn? Feelings in Russian History and Culture,” Slavic Review 68, no. 2 (2009)
  • Jan Plamper, Schamma Schahadat, Marc Elie, eds., Rossiiskaia imperiia chuvstv: Podkhody k kul’turnoi istorii emotsii (Moscow: NLO, 2010)
  • Jan Plamper, Benjamin Lazier, eds., special forum, “Fear Beyond the Disciplines,” Representations, no. 110 (2010)
  • Jan Plamper, Benjamin Lazier, eds., Fear: Across the Disciplines (Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2012)

 

Articles

 

  • “The Russian Orthodox Episcopate, 1721-1917: A Prosopography,” Journal of Social History 34, no. 1 (2000): 5-34
  • “Abolishing Ambiguity: Soviet Censorship Practices in the 1930s,” Russian Review 60, no. 4 (2001): 526-544
  • “Foucault’s Gulag,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 3, no. 2 (2002): 555-580
    Russian, “Gulag Fuko,” Zvezda, no. 8 (2004): 194-205
  • “Archival Revolution or Illusion? Historicizing the Russian Archives and Our Work in Them,” Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 51, no. 1 (2003): 57-69
  • “The Spatial Poetics of the Personality Cult: Circles Around Stalin,” in The Landscape of Stalinism: The Art and Ideology of Soviet Space, ed. Evgeny Dobrenko and Eric Naiman (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003), 19-50
    Russian, “Prostranstvennaia poetika kul’ta lichnosti: ‘krugi’ vokrug Stalina,“ in Oche-vidnaia istoriia: Problemy vizual’noi istorii Rossii XX stoletiia, ed. Igor’ Narskii et al. (Cheliabinsk: Kamennyi poias, 2008), 339-364
  • “Georgian Koba or Soviet ‘Father of Peoples’? The Stalin Cult and Ethnicity,” in The Leader Cult in Communist Dictatorships: Stalin and The Eastern Bloc, ed. Balázs Apor et al. (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004), 123-140
    Russian, “Gruzin Koba ili ‘Otets narodov’? Kul’t Stalina skvoz’ prizmu etnichnosti,” Neprikosnovennyi zapas 10, no. 4 (2011), 263-280
  • “Introduction: Modern Personality Cults,” “‘The Hitlers Come and Go…,’ the Führer Stays: Stalin’s Cult in East Germany,” in Personality Cults in Stalinism – Personenkulte im Stalinismus, ed. Klaus Heller and Jan Plamper (Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2004), 13-42, 301-329
  • “’Die Hitler kommen und gehen…’, der Führer aber bleibt bestehen: Der Stalinkult in SBZ/DDR,“ Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 55, no. 5 (2007): 435-456
  • “Strakh v russkoi armii v 1878-1917 gg.: K istorii medializatsii odnoi emotsii,” in Opyt mirovykh voin v istorii Rossii, ed. Igor’ Narskii et al. (Cheliabinsk: Kamennyi poias, 2007), 453-460
  • Co-authored with Ilshat Gimadeev, “Tatarstan: Mythos um Musa Džalil’. Projektionsfläche für Identität,” Osteuropa 57, no. 12 (2007): 97-115
  • “Emotional Turn? Feelings in Russian History and Culture,” “Fear: Soldiers and Emotion in Early Twentieth-Century Russian Military Psychology,” Slavic Review 68, no. 2 (2009): 229-237, 259-283
    Russian, “Strakh: Soldaty i emotsii v istorii voennoi psikhologii nachala XX veka,” in Rossiiskaia imperiia chuvstv: Podkhody k kul’turnoi istorii emotsii, ed. Jan Plamper, Schamma Schahadat, Marc Elie (Moscow: NLO, 2010): 401-430
  • “Beyond Binaries: Popular Opinion in Stalinism,” in Popular Opinion in Totalitarian Regimes: Fascism, Nazism, Communism, ed. Paul Corner (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009), 64-80
    Italian, “L’opinione popolare sotto lo stalinismo,” in Il consenso totalitario: Opinione pubblica e opinione popolare sotto fascismo, nazismo e comunismo, ed. Paul Corner (Rome: Laterza, 2012), 60-77
  • Co-authored with Susanne Michl, “Soldatische Angst im Ersten Weltkrieg: Die Karriere eines Gefühls in der Kriegspsychiatrie Deutschlands, Frankreichs und Russlands,” Geschichte und Gesellschaft 35, no. 2 (2009): 209-248

 

Other Writings, Journalism

 

  • Entries: “Archives of Soviet Censorship,” vol. 3 (L-R), 2093-2095; “Writers, Artists, and the Gulag,” vol. 3, 2110; “Lev Trotskii,” vol. 4 (S-Z), 2458-2459, in Censorship: A World Encyclopedia, ed. Derek Jones (London/Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001)
  • “Einleitung,” “Zwischen dem Land der Unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten und dem Land der Unbegrenzten Unmöglichkeiten: Die deutsche Osteuropaforschung,” in: Jan Plamper, ed., “Grenzgang in der Geschichte. Wissenschaftskulturen im internationalen Vergleich,” Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 52, no. 10 (2004): 877-880, 894-902
  • “Cultural Production, Cultural Consumption: Post-Stalin Hybrids,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 6, no. 4 (2005): 755-762. Reaction piece to articles by Catriona Kelly and Susan Reid
  • “Lebens-Bildung: Mit Aktion Sühnezeichen in St. Petersburg,” Osteuropa 55, no. 8 (2005): 163-170
  • “Angst dient als Politikersatz. Interview mit Corey Robin,” Frankfurter Rundschau (19 January 2008): 38
  • “Danke, danke, danke,” Die Zeit (24 July 2008): 34
  • “Die Säuberung der Zweideutigkeit. Kirows Zeigefinger als angebliches Geschlechtsteil. Zensurdokumente der Stalinzeit in Archiven der Partnerstadt Petrosawodsk,” Schwäbisches Tagblatt (1 September 2008): 25
  • “Migration und Emotion,” in Ausgerechnet Deutschland! Jüdisch-russische Einwanderung in die Bundesrepublik, ed. Dmitrij Belkin and Raphael Gross (Berlin: Nicolai, 2010): 124-126
  • Co-authored with Benjamin Lazier, “The Phobic Regimes of Modernity,” Representations, no. 110 (2010): 58-65
  • “The History of Emotions: An Interview with William Reddy, Barbara Rosenwein, and Peter Stearns,” History and Theory 49, no. 2 (2010): 237-265
    German, “Wie schreibt man die Geschichte der Gefühle? William Reddy, Barbara Rosenwein und Peter Stearns im Gespräch mit Jan Plamper,” WerkstattGeschichte, no. 54 (2010): 39-69
  • Conference report “The End of the Soviet Union? Origins and Legacies of 1991,” Forschungsstelle Osteuropa Bremen, 19-20 May 2011, H-Soz-u-Kult, 9 July 2011

 

Reviews

 

  • Ian Kershaw and Moshe Lewin, eds., Stalinism and Nazism (Cambridge, 1997) in German Politics and Society 17, no. 1 (1999): 169-174
  • Benno Ennker, Die Anfänge des Leninkults in der Sowjetunion (Cologne, 1997) in Russian Review 58, no. 3 (1999): 509-510
  • Andrei Artizov and Oleg Naumov, eds., Vlast’ i khudozhestvennaia intelligentsiia. Dokumenty TsK RKP(b)-VKP(b), VChK-OGPU-NKVD o kul’turnoi politike. 1917-1953 gg. (Series Rossiia. XX vek. Dokumenty) (Moscow, 1999), Evgenii Gromov, Stalin: vlast’ i iskusstvo (Moscow, 1998), Leonid Maksimenkov, Sumbur vmesto muzyki. Stalinskaia kul’turnaia revoliutsiia 1936-1938 (Moscow, 1997) in Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 2, no. 1 (2001): 211-218
  • Marshall T. Poe, The Russian Moment in World History (Princeton, 2003) in Historische Zeitschrift 279, no. 2 (2004): 429-430
  • Jurij Murašov and Georg Witte, eds., Die Musen der Macht: Medien in der sowjetischen Kultur der 20er und 30er Jahre (Munich, 2003) in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 53, no. 4 (2005): 603-604
  • Meinhard Stark, Frauen im Gulag: Alltag und Überleben. 1936 bis 1956 (Munich, 2003) in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 53, no. 4 (2005): 609-610
  • Matthew Lenoe, Closer to the Masses: Stalinist Culture, Social Revolution, and Soviet Newspapers (Cambridge, Mass., 2004) in Russian Review 65, no. 1 (2006): 152-153
  • Corinna Kuhr-Korolev, “Gezähmte Helden”: Die Formierung der Sowjetjugend 1917-1932 (Essen, 2005) in Russian Review 65, no. 3 (2006): 537-538
  • Bernd Greiner, Christian T. Müller, Dierk Walter, eds., Angst im Kalten Krieg (Hamburg, 2009) in H-Soz-u-Kult, 23 March 2010

 

Translations

 

  • Transl. English>German: Thomas Laqueur, “Onanie und Geschlecht, 1712-1990,” in Wahrnehmung und Herstellung von Geschlecht. Perceiving and Performing Gender, ed. Ursula Pasero and Friederike Braun (Opladen, 1999), 21-36
  • Transl. Russian>German and edited: Irina Reznikova, “Repressionen während der Leningrader Blockade,” 1999. Zeitschrift für Historische Sozialforschung (2000): 117- 141
  • Transl. German>English: Michael Wildt, review of Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (New York, 2010), in Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History (forthcoming)